pink.cheer

Hi All! Just wanted to get a better insight regarding my situation. A little background. I work fulltime in an L&D OB Unit that has 6 labor/antepartum beds and 11 Ob/gyn and postpartum beds. RNs handle all laboring, delivering and antepartum moms before we turn them over to our LPNs after 2-3 hours recovery. Recently we are averaging about 60-70 deliveries a month: both SVDs and C/Sections. I started working here back in 2014 where the census and deliveries per month were much lighter. I begun to feel burnout already and has changed status from FT to Part time which my manager allowed and accepted pre-employment at an outpatient dialysis center; but my decision was not 100% sure. i was just so burned out of the back and forth shifts (i refuse to do permanent AM shift since nurses in AM are kinda hard to deal with), constant influx of travel nurses with some being downright b*tches, the policy during labor that allows so many visitors in the patient room which can be anxiety provoking for me dealing with laboring mother and the sometimes savages family. Not to mention that the OB world in my place is so political with one Ob doctor in constant cold and media war with us. I love women's health and i cant deny that i will miss the good and great shifts, but I dnt think i can work in OB right now without having anxieties before coming to work regarding what kind of shift i will have, what kind of patient and most importantly what kind of family the patient will have. For me, the most difficult part was being vocal and having to explain everything I do with my patient which is no problem at all. The problem then comes down with dealing with angry or anxious or irritating family members. i am so used to OB now (still learning new things of course) but these reasons made me change to PT in hopes that the anxiety will lessen and unit will improve its local staffing in the future. main reason i am still going to hold my position as PT is because again i like OB minus all those mentioned, and the other job i applied for doesnt pay as well as this one. i am so confused with what to do with my career, sad that im gonna lose FT status in my very first nursing job. Need help from the veteran nurses here😔